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As Hurricane Matthew's dark clouds appeared over the the Sunshine State as a category 4, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith assured his Florida viewers, that if they were caught in the path of the storm that they and "everyone" they know, including their kids, were dead. That was not reporting,...

The Port Everglades water distribution system supplies the cruise ships, Broward County Convention Center, and Harbor Shops (a plaza with a Publix, handful of eateries, and a gym for mothers and their babies). Now the Port is warning its users about their drinking water. The City of Fort Lauderdale once...

When the passenger came to, she was on a desk aboard the M/V Norwegian Sky, crying hysterically and trying to figure out how she’d wound up there. Her vaginal area was sore, and the last thing she could remember was being trapped in a storage room by the bartender who’d...

On a recent Thursday at 10:30 a.m., one mother holds a plank position as her pig-tailed toddler breastfeeds from the yoga mat beneath her. Five other mothers (some pregnant) exercise beside her. Vanilla Ice’s “Ice, Baby, Ice” blasts from the speakers. Five toddlers scurry around the gym, chasing each other...

Thirty bored students bask in the glow of aging computer monitors under the ever-present hum of fluorescent lights. Some scroll through articles on health and fitness and fill in bubbles on multiple choice quizzes. Others furtively scour the web for online flash games that haven’t yet been blocked by Dade...

Dahrnaz Tigner’s little sister, Jade, once weighed nearly 300 pounds. She was ill. He was ambitious. So to bring attention to childhood obesity, the 27-year-old former high school athlete recently walked more than 1300 miles from his home in Pompano Beach to the White House. It took two months. “At...